Word: raisonneur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stepfather, who is the play's raisonneur, draws a few morals from his position inside his story, which only serve to indicate that Pirandello is in doubt about the difference between a profundity and a platitude. But the Stepfather's long speech, to the effect that the Characters are more real than the "real" actors, is subtle and intriguing, and so is the dramatic embodiment of this theme in a great entanglement of paradoxes: the Characters are really actors who pretend to be characters demanding to be acted, the Actors are really pretending to be other actors pretending...
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